Recently as in they changed the system to rolling cans.
If you read any number of recent articles on FR, you’ll see the absolute fallacy of curbside recycling. The cost is phenomenal and there is no where to put the recycled materials because there is no market for them. You waste time and resources, such as washing out garbage and lovingly placing garbage in the special bin only for it to end up in the same landfill.
In the past when I did play their silly game, I refused to waste water, which I pay for to wash out garbage.
There is some minor validity to aluminum, but virtually nothing else. There is no market for it.
Plus, landfills are now clean facilities. The methane is trapped and sold. There’s a landfill near me that’s nearing capacity and being turned into a park.
For many years, they actually put recyclables onto ships and wasted diesel fuel shipping garbage overseas. China and other countries are no overrun with recyclables from well meaning but gullible Americans. They refuse further deliveries because there’s simply nothing they can do with the garbage.
So, since it costs resources to get rid of it and there’s no market for the use of any of the trash here, what do you propose? I like the landfill idea and we just stop playing silly expensive feel good games.